All Stores and property articles – Page 280
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GalleryJoe Fresh, Vancouver
This store’s in Vancouver and is a two-floor, 14,000 sq ft flagship for Joe Fresh, the clothing brand set up by local retail entrepreneur Joe Mimran in 2006 to sit alongside Canadian supermarket Loblaw’s food offer as a shop-in-shop.
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NewsOffice Depot ties up with Dixons to open PC World shop-in-shops
Office supplies giant Office Depot is testing shop-in-shops in electricals group Dixons Retail’s stores.
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GalleryConcept stores: Let it roll
What happens when a concept store needs to be rolled out and what needs to be done to keep the spirit of the original, asks John Ryan
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NewsKingfisher’s trade chain Screwfix opens up to public with showroom
DIY giant Kingfisher’s trade chain Screwfix is to trial a standalone bathroom store, called Watersmith.
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NewsFormer Borders boss plans new retail business
Philip Downer, the former boss of defunct bookseller Borders UK, is mulling a new retail venture.
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OpinionRetail surgery: Will the equality act affect my disabled access obligations?
Will the Equality Act 2010 affect my disabled access obligations?
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NewsFresh & Easy hunts small stores to extend its reach
Fresh & Easy, Tesco’s US business, is considering smaller stores as it seeks out new locations in northern California.
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NewsMarks & Spencer to open Champs-Elysees store this summer
Marks & Spencer is to open a store in Paris on the Champs-Elysees as early as this summer, it is understood.
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OpinionTimes change. So do stores
You can learn just as much about a store’s performance by going back as you will on the initial visit.
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OpinionShowtime in the stores
Spontaneity and innovation should be cherished in retail, says Jacqueline Gold
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News'Little Waitrose' convenience fascia trialled
Waitrose is trialling a new fascia for its convenience stores, Little Waitrose.
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NewsPoundworld to roll out multi-price store format
Single price point retailer Poundworld is to roll out it multi-price format, Discount UK, as it opens its second store in Stevenage.
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NewsFormer owners buy 12 Suits You stores
Peter Lucas and Arafa Holding, the former owners of collapsed menswear chain Suits You, have acquired 12 of its 66 stores through Baird Group and relaunched them under the Suitdirect fascia.
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NewsHaldanes readies hard discounter model Ugo
Independent food group Haldanes is to invest in a raft of initiatives to revitalise the hard discounter model when it launches its “Netto plus” chain at the end of April.
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GallerySportScheck, Berlin: A store of two halves
Otto-owned retailer SportScheck’s new Berlin store successfully combines technology with tradition. John Ryan pays a visit
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GalleryUrban Outfitters, Spitalfields
Wander around Spitalfields in east London and you could be forgiven for thinking that you’re in a branch of Urban Outfitters: all is tastefully decayed and generally expensive.
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Opinion
Whitstable: the way things could be
In a report in late 2010, the New Economic Foundation named Whitstable as the town with the UK’s most diverse high street.
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GallerySainsbury’s Fresh Kitchen, Fleet Street
It is hard to tell at what point it became fashionable to call a sandwich shop a ‘kitchen’, but the latest example of the tendency opened last week on London’s Fleet Street when Sainsbury’s unveiled its Fresh Kitchen.
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NewsSainsbury's opens its first sandwich shop, Fresh Kitchen
Sainsbury’s is hoping to grab a slice of the £13bn lunchtime market with the opening of its first sandwich shop, Fresh Kitchen.
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GalleryBig Eataly
Slow food beacon Eataly’s latest store is in Manhattan and is twice the size of the Turin original. John Ryan visits
